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Subject: Re: screensaver lkms broken
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 12:52:36 -0800 (PST)
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        mark@grunt.grondar.za
In-Reply-To: <199503032033.WAA01464@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 3, 95 10:33:56 pm
From: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban)
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Mark Murray writes:
> 
> > After the changes to syscons, the screensaver lkm's won't compile anymore.
> > It needs apm_bios.h.
> 
> This is crazy! I saw the change committed _long_ before the two emails
> reporting the error! (The commit mentioned the 'reporters').
> Talk about fast!
> 
> > By the way, how do I get to load these things? I have tried with modload,
> > but it just coredump all the time.
> 
> This happens to me too. "modload <screensaver>.o" dumps on me too.
> "modload <screensaver>" creates null files called "<screensaver>".

# Syscons screen saver
(modstat | grep -q _saver || modload -u -o /tmp/snake_saver_mod -e saver_init -q /lkm/snake_saver_mod.o) > /dev/null 2>&1

it's from my rc.local and it works just fine for me ...

> 
> M
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> Mark Murray
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-- dima